The Taliban torched a girls' school in Taloqan, the capital city of northern Takhar province, an official said on Monday. Nasrat Rahimi, spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior (MoI), told Pajhwok Afghan News the Taliban burned the Bodala…
An Islamic scholar was shot dead by Taliban militants in western Herat province on Monday, officials said. Jailani Farhad, governor’s spokesman told Pajhwok Afghan News that Taliban killed an Islamic scholar in a mosque in Kahsan district…
KABUL are committed to their own interests and as a result, there is no progress in their peace talks. Talks between the US and the Taliban resumed last month after US President Donald Trump abruptly suspended the parlays. In recent…
Taliban centres in southeastern Paktia province, officials said on Thursday. Dr. Fazal Mohammad Mangal, head of the contracting firm, told Pajhwok Afghan News they had not received medicines for supply to health centres for a month or so.…
KABUL is hard and peace maintenance even harder. A VOA Pashto report said that Sopko expressed made these remarks while briefing the US Congress about peace related issues on Tuesday. He said cooperation among the US, Afghanistan and other allies…
Local officials on Monday said a key Taliban commander and his bodyguard were killed while four others wounded during an attack of Afghan forces in southwestern Jawzjan province. On the other hand, Taliban say the people killed were…
In an effort to break a deadlock in peace negotiations, the Taliban chief has agreed to a brief ceasefire with the United States and reducing attacks on the Afghan armed forces, media reports say. “After discussions over the…
KABUL Sahib district of northern Kunduz province, The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said on Sunday. In a statement, MoD said that Mohibullah a Pakistani national was perished during an airstrike. Operations against the Taliban militants have been recently accelerated in…
Airstrikes killed at least seven Taliban militants and wounded another six in the provincial capital of northern Kunduz province, an official said on Thursday, but the rebels claimed the slain people were students of a seminary. Hadi…
KABUL should be based on international guarantees. Fawzia Kufi, MCA head, told a press conference here that there were hopes for a possible agreement between the Taliban and the US in next few days. The MCA and the people of…
Sixteen Taliban-Herat Highway in central Ghor province, an official said on Monday. Ghor Deputy Governor Habibullah Radmanish told Pajhwok Afghan News the operation was started on Monday morning and was successfully underway. Afghan Air force pounded some trenches…
KABUL on Monday rejected agreeing to a ceasefire after rumors of potential deal and said they had no intension of truce at the movement. “The truth is that the Islamic Emirates has no intension of a ceasefire. The US demanded…
Three key members of the, including the group’s Military Commission head, has been killed in the Pashton Zarghon district of western Herat province, an official said on Monday. Governor Spokesperson Jilani Farhad told Pajhwok Afghan News the…
KABUL negotiators have handed the United States a list of 5,000 prisoners whose release has been written into the agreement under discussion, a media report said on Monday. A Taliban leader, privy to peace talks between the two sides in…
KABUL’s political office in Qatar says no decision has been taken yet on a ceasefire, rejecting as baseless media reports regarding a 10-day truce. “The Taliban’s Leadership Council agreed Sunday to a temporary cease-fire in Afghanistan, providing a window in…
KABUL, spurring optimism for peace with the United States and the Afghan government. With the duration of the ceasefire unclear, some media outlets say it would last at least 10 days, during which the Taliban might ink the long-illusive peace…
KABUL that killed or wounded US soldiers and civilians, alleges a new lawsuit. Filed on Friday, the suit claims the contractors made protection payments to the Taliban because they had lucrative businesses in post-9/11 Afghanistan. Payments were made to convince…
KABUL’s shadow chief for the Shindand district of western Herat province has been killed, the Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday. In a statement, the MoD said the security forces raided Abdul Rauf’s hideout in Kashk-i-Kohna district. He was killed…
The Taliban’s chief for the Pusht-i-Koh district of western Herat province was killed along with another fighter on Saturday. Police spokesman Abdul Ahad Walizada told Pajhwok Afghan News Mullah Saifullah wanted to storm a security forces’ convoy…
KABUL. Suhail Shaheen, speaking for the Taliban negotiating team, tweeted on Friday that the insurgent movement had no plan to stop hostilities before a deal on foreign troop withdrawal deal. He wrote: “Intra-Afghan negotiations will begin only after an agreement…
KABUL and Afghan government talks in the future. Addressing a graduation ceremony here, Danish said the Taliban during the past one year showed that they have no determination for the establishment of peace. “We believe that peace talks should begin…
KABUL attack near Bagram airfield this week, and "we’re taking a brief pause," apparently in reference to peace talks that had recently resumed with the militant group, the NBC News reported on Friday. "When I met the Talibs today,…
Taliban militants have released 40 elderly individuals who were abducted two days back in the Faizabad district of northern Jawzjan province, an official said on Thursday. The elderly men were attending funeral prayers for Allah Biran, an uprising…
KABUL if they halt all military operations against the militant movement. Taliban negotiators conveyed their position to US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and NATO commander in Afghanistan Gen. Scott Miller in Doha, according to The News. Unnamed Taliban sources in…
